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lilysadventuresinbookland 's review for:
The City Beautiful
by Aden Polydoros
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
The City Beautiful is a standalone Jewish fantasy novel, where Alter Rosen, a Romanian immigrant that came to America, Chicago 1893, and is working hard to get his mother and sister to join him. His best friend becomes a victim in a chain of mysterious Jewish deaths in the city, and he gets possessed by his dybbuk.
first of all the premise of this book? wtf was I even waiting for? I’ve had this book for a few years! this might be a fantasy, but for me it was a story of Jewish immigrants in America facing the antisemitism they were running from when immigrating from Europe. it’s a book that shows the Jewish experience everywhere around the world throughout the years, antisemitism wasn’t new to the immigrant characters and it definitely isn’t new to us today.
this book was written way before the current war but it had some quotes in there that just hit home, with everything we’re seeing happen around the world to Jews and also online, it was pretty emotional to read this book now, and especially since I read it a few days before Yom Hashoah.
and on top of loving this for the powerful message it sends out to the world, I love the concept of dybbuk so the story itself was incredible to me, I just couldn’t put it down! this is definitely a must read imo!
“That was the awful irony of it all. He targeted us because he could see us, but the moment I took away identifying clothing, I became invisible.”
first of all the premise of this book? wtf was I even waiting for? I’ve had this book for a few years! this might be a fantasy, but for me it was a story of Jewish immigrants in America facing the antisemitism they were running from when immigrating from Europe. it’s a book that shows the Jewish experience everywhere around the world throughout the years, antisemitism wasn’t new to the immigrant characters and it definitely isn’t new to us today.
this book was written way before the current war but it had some quotes in there that just hit home, with everything we’re seeing happen around the world to Jews and also online, it was pretty emotional to read this book now, and especially since I read it a few days before Yom Hashoah.
and on top of loving this for the powerful message it sends out to the world, I love the concept of dybbuk so the story itself was incredible to me, I just couldn’t put it down! this is definitely a must read imo!
“That was the awful irony of it all. He targeted us because he could see us, but the moment I took away identifying clothing, I became invisible.”